A curated selection of public diplomacy-relevant news from a global cross-section of English-language media outlets, including independent, corporate-owned, and state-sponsored sources. The stories featured don't necessarily represent CPD's views nor have they been verified by CPD.
The Cinema’s Surprising New Anti-communist Films
For the first time in years, filmmakers in America and around the world are daring to make films criticizing communism. This heartening trend began with 2008’s blockbuster hit “Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull,” produced by George Lucas and directed by Steven Spielberg, in which Indiana Jones fights Soviet communist agents who are trying to capture an alien crystal skull in order to brainwash the West.
Great Ethiopian Run branding Ethiopia
The tenth version of Africa's biggest mass road race, the Great Ethiopian Run, will to be held in Addis Ababa tomorrow. The organizing committee, headed by the prominent athlete Haile Gebereselassie, in partnership with the United Nations, launched its campaign of the 2010 Great Ethiopian Run with the motto: ''I am Running for the Child to Narrow the Gap to Meet the Millennium Development Goals.''
On TV, an Afghan Unit Challenges Tradition And Tackles the Taliban
They break up child suicide-bomber rings, take down drug lords and government ministers (even when they are the same thing) and kick in doors to rescue kidnapped diplomats — all with little or no help from the Americans and NATO.
Summit seeks to bolster citizen diplomacy
Community and business leaders gathered in Washington this week to promote "citizen diplomacy," the process of boosting international understanding through direct contact between citizens of different countries.
Christie’s And China: An Artful Diplomacy
Two months ago, during Asian Art Week, Christie’s auction house invited hundreds of wealthy collectors, scholars and art patrons to its New York headquarters in Rockefeller Center for what it described as a special exhibition and symposium about the rise of Chinese contemporary art.
NATO and Russia: ‘Refresh’ but no Transformation
The NATO summit that convenes in Lisbon is not a celebration. The Alliance is overextended, overburdened and apprehensive. Yet its relationship with Russia is improving.
Mobile Voices/Voces Móviles Microreporting Site Wins U.N. Mobile Technology Award
Mobile Voices/Voces Móviles, the microblogging project designed in collaboration with USC Annenberg and the Institute of Popular Education of Southern California, or IDEPSCA, has won a United Nations-sponsored World Summit Award for innovative mobile applications.
Citizen diplomacy focus of Washington, D.C. summit
More than 500 people are attending a summit in Washington D.C. this week to address what’s called “citizen diplomacy.” The U.S. Center for Citizen Diplomacy is a Des Moines based organization that encourages every American to seek opportunities to work with people in other countries.
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